The Labor enquirer., 1887-03-19


granting Of street car or elevated road
franchises; The city 10 own such i'm:
provements itself; demanding that each
car have one conductor and q driver
the control Of rtreeis to be taken from
any syndicate Of capitalists; the preven-
ton Of the smalga,nation Of corporations
against the interests Of the people; the
adoption Of the eigbt.hour law; the
abolition OF the tenement-hou system I;
the -egl stion by the CITY Of prices Of tele-
phone. telegraph and electric light facil-
lies; the equal taxing Of the rich and
POOR. and the non.taxing Of Improve.
ments on land the giving Of track fa
cilities TO oil railroa ls and the refund.
ing Of the city's deat at 4 per cent in
tereat.
THE RAILROAD STRIKE.
PfrrsBuRo. Pa. March 1.-THE freight
brakemen's strike on the Baltimore &
Ohio road Is virtually at an end aud
trains will be running as usual by Mon
day or Tuesdav next. Several traIne
we're se I out and received to day with
out any demonstration on the part Of
the strikers. The trains were manned
principally by new crews. although quite
u number Of old men returned to work.
CLEVELAND, March 1.-The strike Of
the biakemen on the New York, Penn.
svlyania & OHIO railroad Is extending.
To-day 81! the brakemen on the Mahon.
ing division refused ~ work, not solely
TO back the yArdmeu. but because they
have stated grievances Of their own, A
general strike on the Erie road Is ex-
pected here. Engineers OF the Eastern
ulvision have been holding meetings at
Salamanca,
Thi, morning the freight brakemen
andconductors refused to take on. trains
made up by green hands, and all the
road men along the line are said TO be on
the eve of qaitting Sorx until the
trouble with the swi,chnen is adjusted.
BOOM BOOM!
''Let us play there is nothing wrong"
ST. PETrR-BuRo. March l6.-The Off.
cial Messenet publishes the ,Tollowing:
On Sun lay last nj II o'clock ip,the
morning three students Of the 81. Peters
burg university were arrested in the
Newsky prospect, having in their pos.
session several bombs. The prisoners
admitted that they belonged to pee rel
labor society. TIE bombs that were
found on them were charged with dyna-
mite. Each bomb was arranged b.
throw eleven balls and all of these balls
were filed with strychnine(?)
Tso Of the Fix persons arrested an
quite young, "a d two others appear to
belong to { Q pessint class. All six car
ried ! olsons, and il il presumed that
they intended to commit suicide in the
event Of their being arrested. Twenty
female students OF the Bestuchef Insti.
tute are among those who were arrested
in connection with the plot.
BOON AGAINl
But this time there Is no "row" made about II,
LONDON. March l0.-A disastrous ex-
rlosion Of dynamite occurred to-day in
a stone quarry at Lobsiiz, Bohemia,
One hundred men who were at work in
tho quarry at the time were blown TO
atoms. Thei were nothing but work,
ipsmen and beoluse the accident was
caused bv the negligence Of the owNERs
naihing will be done.
INTENTIONS. INTRNTIoNs.'
4 man punished because detectives swore hs
"intcnded" to commit crime,
SAN Francisco, March l6-Johu +,
Stites, the victim Of the detectives plot
who by them was charged with attempt.
ing to place dynamite bomb on the
sut,er street cable line, was found guilty,
Judge Hunts charge was scandalous.
He slid In substance that it was not
necessary to be caught placing bomb
IN the track, but II was sufficient to
ah'w that the person had INTENTIONS 80
TO do. The pri,ouer will be sentenced
Saturday.